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tonight on "nightline," tornado emergency. in oklahoma, five twisters touch down. flash flooding traps thousands on the freeway. and a mother and child are swept away into the storm. a living nightmare just 11 days after the moore tornado killed 24. we speak with a father who lost two children in that deadly storm and has to go back yet again. oklahoma braces for what daylight will bring. >> target oklahoma, tornados strike again. we'll be back in 60 seconds.

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"nightline," target oklahoma, tornadoes strike again. >> good evening and thanks for joining us. we're coming to you with breaking news out of western oklahoma where a staggering five twisters have wreaked havoc. at this hour at least five confirmed deaths and power outages and evacuations. the new cluster of deadly storms touched down in the same part of the state december mated by that mile-wide twister which struck moore, oklahoma, 11 days ago. tonight ginger zee is on the scene with more on a weather nightmare that doesn't seem to end for the people of oklahoma. ginger? >> juju, it hasn't ended. the nightmare still coming down in the form of rain. at types relentless rain and that is the biggest and most urgent issue facing central oklahoma right now. flash flooding. we're still hearing about dangerous conditions all over on some of the highways and some of the smaller roads too. we'll of course find out a whole

lot more overnight. here's what i want you to know about what we know about what happened today. i'm standing in front of a community college. you can't see much here because it is so dark at this hour. but it is route here in el reno, one of the first spots that was affected by the tornados. it ripped this out and just basically took the inside out. i think that's how a lot of okies are feeling here, like they have had so much torn from them and torn apart-time and again. and now five new reported tornados right here. i was watching these storms come toward the city and i got this sick feeling in my stomach. i thought, how could it be happening again? really to track in that same way, but this time going straight to the city. as we were getting out we got stuck in gridlock like so many others. i-44, i-35, i-40. huge highways here and almost shut down. one storm chaser, and i know this guy, brandon sullivan, he was trying to get away from the tornado because it was wobbling.

i was watching the radar. very odd the way it moved. north, then south, southeast, then northeast. you've got to see this video, take a listen. >> brett, go now! drive! go faster! >> what you're seeing there is pieces of debris coming at the car. eventually, one cracks the windshield, big hay bales coming at them. very dangerous situation. fortunately everybody inside that vehicle okay. there were many other storm chases who got pictures in and video too and this gives you an indication of what's happening. you're seeing reid zimmer and weather.com, multi-vortex images here, drop, come down, sister tornados at times.

what a volatile situation. we knew this was going to be a violent day, and unfortunately it came together to be just that. 80,000 without power and a long night, very wet, ahead. >> thanks for that harrowing report. and please stay safe. it is a truly shocking sense of deja vu as ginger described in oklahoma tonight. amidst this stormy chaos, highway patrol officer betsy randolph spoke with us and gave us the latest update on what she's seeing unfold along highways where an alarming number of people were on the road when the tornados hit and are now stranded in their vehicles. but first she confirmed that two of the multiple fatalities tonight were a mother and her child. >> our big corridors that go through our state were affected. we had a lot of crashes, overturned vehicles. a merth and a baby lost their lives out here tonight. they were swept up in the storm. so just a really heartbreaking event tonight following the tragedy from last monday. >> the mother and the baby who

you say were swept up in the storm, did they drown? were they in a car accident? what happened? >> well, it happened they were traveling on the interstate and their car was sucked up into the tornado and they were sucked out of their vehicle. and thrown from their vehicle. in fact, one of the troopers got to what they thought was just an overturned vehicle. they were told by somebody that was traveling with them, not sure if that was a family member or what, that told them the mother and child were missing, that they'd been sucked out of the vehicle and sucked up into the storm. so a search then ensued and the trooper found the mother and the baby a short distance, a short time later, and both of them were deceased. >> oh, that's tragic. other than those two fatalities which are tragic enough, have you heard accounts of other casualties? >> i have heard of some others. i don't know how many others. i can't confirm any of the numbers right now. the two that we worked, the

mother and the baby, are the only that the highway patrol worked to the best of my knowledge. we've had multiple crashes, mutual bell overturned vehicles. >> what advice do you give to someone driving down that highway, maybe they have kids in the car, suddenly a storm like that approaches? do you stay in the car, try to get off the highway? >> a couple of things we tell people. number one, never to drive into an area that immediately turns black. if the clouds turn black or the inside of your vehicle immediately fogs up, that's an indication that there is a really rapid change in the temperature. and when that happens, we know that there could be a tornado present. we ask you to immediately move to the shoulder of the roadway. and then believe it or not, abandon your vehicle. because especially tonight, the mother and the child that were swept from their vehicle, sucked out of their vehicle, your seat belt is no match for a tornado in those high winds.

we know that the lower that you are to the ground, the safer that you're going to be. we tell people, get off the roadway, get out of your vehicle, and seek shelter in a low-lying area, especially a ditch. the tornados that we've had recently in oklahoma, the only place that you're sure to be safe is underground. coming from highway patrol officer betsy randolph, our thanks. joining us now is veteran storm chaser reid timmer in el reno, oklahoma, and was swept up amidst the monster storm as it was bearing down earlier this evening. he's still tracking the swirling disaster and paints a vivid picture of the latest in a string of disastrous oklahoma twisters. >> in this you could tell it was going to be a monster supercell. it looked like a pancake, basically, all the ingredients in place for strong tornados. when that happens, the storms are very efficient at producing tornados.

it develops a wall cloud, the lowering that hangs down below the base of the storm. started wrapping very rapidly and these suction vortices, miniature tornados that are spinning around like a cell and a multiple vortex tornado started developing very close to the vehicle. violent motion and it turned into a half mile wide tornado. we're driving after it, we have these armored vehicles called the dominators and they dropped to the ground with hydraulics and have spikes that go into the ground. we deployed and had our hood ripped off the vehicle. >> but reid, you're an experienced storm chaser, yet you sustained pretty severe damage to your truck. >> yes. our truck's pretty beat up the last three or four days. we're going to have to go back tomorrow and grab our hood and put it back on and we'll be ready to go. we know the ones you can get really close to. in this case we stayed a little bit further back. >> reid, i know a lot of the the concern in this cluster of storms centered around i-40, the

main highway. a lot of people were trapped as storms were barreling down. >> yeah, we continued to follow the storm. we saw a house that was -- sustained pretty significant damage. emergency vehicles there. our thoughts and prayers go out to those people. >> our thanks to reid timmer, an extreme meteorologist. and our coverage of the second major storm to batter the oklahoma area in as many weeks continues now with philip vargas who suffered unfathomable loss 11 days ago. two of his young daughters were killed in the twister that hit his home in oklahoma. and now just two days before his children's memorial service, he and his wife and their two other children found themselves face to face with another deadly storm. >> we took a look out the window and seen what was coming our way. so given what we experienced last monday, we started to load up in the car and do what a lot

of people say and head south. >> you didn't wait for an evacuation order, you headed out? >> correct. we loaded up and me and other family member convoyed two cars deep as far south as we could. when traffic got bad we started heading east. >> can you describe for me at the worst what did the storms look like? >> well, i know that whenever i was headed south, you could see that the swirling winds in the treetops and the grass -- it kind of made me nervous. so we started working our way east. it was blinding rain and extreme winds. >> where are you now? how safe are you in relation to the storms that are around you? >> we're actually at an oklahoma city firehouse. we have some of this weather still blowing through. that's why we're remaining here. so we're going to hold tight till this is gone, then we'll go back to see what damage has been done where we were temporarily housed. >> i know that you suffered a

devastating loss last week with your daughters, corinna and sydney lost in this storm. my condolences for that. what was going through your mind as you saw this new twister approaching your family? >> i think what would go through mother fathers' mind. not this again and you're not taking what i got left. so we loaded up and there was no hesitation whatsoever, given the circumstances. my wife remained calm and my kids remained calm and we loaded up in the vehicles and got as far south as traffic would let us. >> how were they doing? your wife i know was in the house when your two daughters were killed in the last storm. how is she doing, how is she holding on during this storm? >> she's -- she's doing surprisingly strong. i mean, she's -- she's a little shaken, obviously. her nerves are a little shot, given everything she's been through. you know, she's being strong. i think she's being stronger for me than for herself. we're trying to help each other out through whatever we face moving forward.

this just happens to be another thing we've been hit with. >> our sincere things to philip vargas and his entire family. our heart dwos out to all those who have suffered to much in these storms. we continue with the latest coverage on the second storm to hit oklahoma city in 11 days. hey america, even though she doesn't need them,

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over after that last tornado 11 days ago. tragically, tonight's deadly storm was a shocking indication that the new normal is yet to be recalibrated. here's abc's byron pitt. >> this is the most violent tornado i've ever seen by far. >> reporter: seems almost cruel this could happen again. it was just 11 days ago this 210-mile-per-hour tornado plowed through the town of moore. >> oh my gosh, i don't know if people lived in that one. >> reporter: 40 minutes, 20 people dead, 10 of them children. hundreds injured, hopes gone. jason shot this video moments before he and his family took shelter below ground. only to re-emerge to this. >> the lord giveth and the lord taketh away. >> reporter: his optimism spoke to the oklahoma spirit. but this video released to abc

news showed what that spirit had to endure. this was the moment the tornado struck briarwood elementary school. one teacher at the presence of mind to record it. >> it's almost over. it's almost over. >> reporter: the screams of terrified children soon followed by the letter assuring voices of teachers. when it was over, the reunions started. >> it's okay, honey, it's okay, i know. >> reporter: the cobb family rushed to collect their daughters from briarwood. this image seen around the world. >> i tried to move it off my leg. it hurt so much. and i was like -- it was -- the tornado had knocked it, i was screaming help, my leg, my leg, no one could hear me.

>> reporter: soon we were reminded once more. >> oh my gosh. >> reporter: whenever man and mother nature meet this way, she wins. >> one of the previous neighborhoods of moore. we're going to rebuild, though. >> reporter: we've already started by picking up the pieces. families line the pattersons who lost everything they own. >> we'll pick up the pieces. i'm not leaving. >> reporter: tonight the famed okey spirit is being tested yet again. but when the sun returns, so will the survivors. >> you were so brave. >> reporter: and they will rebuild. they always do. for "nightline," byron pitts in new york. >> thanks, byron, for that stirring report. when we come back we pay tribute to the teachers who risked it all for their students in the storm that struck moore, oklahoma, less than two weeks ago. [ stewart ] this is the kind of food i love to cook.

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finally tonight, just 11 days ago uniformed first responders were springing into action in moore, oklahoma. and yet as new heroes emerge

david muir pays tribute to the teachers protecting their students as that mile-wide tornado battered their school. >> reporter: their screams we will never forget. the children burying their heads at briarwood elementary, trapped under that tornado hovering overhead. we will also never forget the calm instincts of their teachers. so many teachers. >> it's almost over, it's almost over! >> reporter: she didn't know about her own daughter and son. they both survived and we saw the moment little sam found her mother looking up at her. when she took us back this week, she showed us where he was in the back corner of that room and lying on top of him and the other children, his teacher, mrs. biddel. >> my son and all the other kids huddled down, hands clasped by their heads. sherry is a friend, she's a

co-worker. and i know that my son and daughter were both in the hands of people who loved them. >> reporter: and this is mrs. biddle. >> my entire class was safe and well and got delivered to a parent. and the teachers at plaza towers didn't have that blessing. and -- and i can't even imagine. >> reporter: we were given a tour of that other school too, plaza towers elementary, where they lost seven little faces in one hallway. what's still a mystery, a miracle, is how so many others got out. most everything there is gone. but we notice mrs. marinelli's first grade classroom intact, the schoolwork on the desk where it was all left. and just before that tornado hit, they were writing what they liked most about their teacher. >> i will remember she gave me cupcakes. they were remembering because this was a couple of days left of school for the year. >> i can't help but not